Both parties benefited from the arrangement.
Compared to families with many members like theirs, Old Master Lan Sihai had no such worries. The elderly couple lived a leisurely life, strolling, drinking tea, and enjoying crosstalk and storytelling performances, making for a cozy lifestyle.
No one in the courtyard lived as comfortably as the elderly couple.
After all, with pension money and no financial burdens, their life was bound to be easy. Several families lived in the backyard. How to put it? Their lives certainly weren't as good as the Zhuang family's, but they were still better off than Wang Xiangxiu's family.
Problems like Li the Cook and Aunt Wang's families revolved around insufficient housing. Over the years, they had saved some money, but buying a house was still difficult. These days, buying and selling houses was a complicated process.
It was hard to find suitable options.
